December sale for T in the Park tickets

A limited number of tickets for Scotland's biggest music festival will go on general release in December, it has been announced.

The 19th T in the Park festival in Balado, near Kinross, will be held over the weekend of 6-8 July.

Organisers said tickets would go on sale at 9am on 2 December.

A batch of early tickets were already sold straight after this year's festival, which featured Beyonce, Coldplay and Foo Fighters.

The rest of the tickets will go on general release early next year.

Geoff Ellis, festival director, said: "Plans for 2012 are already well under way here and once again we are securing some of the finest acts on the planet to perform before the world's most passionate music fans.

"The time is now to secure tickets to the 2012 festival."

Last year thousands of people watched 200 acts perform over 11 stages.